How to remove a Google Play Leaderboard highscore

Question

I've just published my game and I see that the high score from testing is still present as the high-score. How do I remove it/reset the leaderboard?

Answer 1

In game load leaderboard or achievements -- in right top corner click settings -- sharing -- Disconnect (with check box "also delete all activities in google"). It will remove all your scores

Answer 2

Answer - you can't. Leaderboards are fixed after publishing and you can't remove entries. I could either hide the dubious score, or, as I did, create a new leaderboard and delete the old.

Importantly, this Stackoverflow question - How do I reset Google Play Games leaderboards before publishing? - that I referred to before publishing was invalid. My test leaderboard was not reset upon publishing. In future I'll be sure that test scores are suitably low and irrelevant.

Answer 3

I'm approaching this question to remove any entries of possible cheaters. I see an API method to hide a certain player: https://developers.google.com/games/services/management/api/players

Same in REST API: https://developers.google.com/games/services/management/api/?hl=en#Players

Someone can also enable Anti-Piracy (https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/antipiracy) for the app, Tamper protection for the leader board (http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/21/google-play-games-introduces-new-publishing-api-and-leaderboard-tamper-protection-improves-unity-plugin-and-c-sdk/), but that only seems to be advisable if you are Android only and you don't have iOS and HTML release.